Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-11-19
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ing could = rurther from the truth.
They were men who loved peace, whose
hearts were full of tenderness I;
who were loved by those who we'll knew
them, trusted by those who came to un-
derstand the glory and power of their
lives. And the anarchy of which they
spoke and taught, what was itl but an
attempt to answer the question after the
resolution, whatr They believed that
there was that of wrong and hardship in
the exacting order which pointed to con-
fiict, because they believed that selfish
ness would not surrender peaceably and
of its own motion to righteousness. and
the whole of their 6ought, Of their phi
lOs0phy as Anarchists, was the establish
ment of an order Of the society that
should be symbolized in the words,
Order without force Is it practical?
1 know not, They thought it was. !
know that it is not practical now, but /
know also as philosopher and Christisn
that under the inspiration of love that
day will come when righteousness will
reign in the earth, and when sin and
self6shness will end.
Capt Black ended his address by read
ing poem reciting the virtues of the
deceased and lauding Anarchy. Capt
Black was followed by Robert Reitzel,
of Detroit, who made fierce speech in
German, oondemning the workingmen of
Chicago for having allowed five Of their
best men TO be murdered, declaring that
they died for Justice, and denouncing a
society 'Sbased upon robbery and sus-
tanned BY murder" His remarks were
welcomed with applause, cries of s'bravo. =
and fierce wells.
OTHER SPEECHES.
7. J. Morgan, a local Socialist leader,
of English birth, then expressed his con-
tempt for the law which hanged Anarch-
ist Ia voice ''throttle the law,') and
sneered at the .'spread-eaglism of the
American fourth of July, which obscured
the minds of the people >
The last speech was in German, by
Albert Curtin, formerly of the "Arbeiter
Zeitung. He scarcely got started when
Captain Black stepped to the front and
laid his hand on the speakers arm. II
was now pitch dark in the graveyard and
people were being wrought up to high
pitch of excitement by oratory and sur
roundings.
Capt. Black gave the word that the
ceremonies would now be closed The
collins of the five Anarchists were car
ned into the blaekness within the vault,
and the ceremonies ended with general
stampede of the people for the return
trains
The Story Of the Crime.
Ii wss May 4, 1856, day only equaled
in importance in the history of Chicago
by October 3, 1s71-the date of the great
fire-that the memorable circular, "Re-
venge, Workingmen. to srmsm wa:
struck from the type of the "ArbeiteI
Zeitung" office. and was sent broadcast
among sOcialissic and anarchistic groupe:
Of the city. Carried away with the fury
Of their followers the leaders believed
that the time Of the ''bloody revolution,
so long predicted and prepared for was
at hand, and the hour for action had
come.
That night a meeting was called or
Haymarket Square ostensibly to denouret
.'the latest act of the police, in depress-
ing the crowd of strikers about the Nc.
Cormick Reaper Works. A vague but
very certain feeling or presentiment ran
through the city that the meeting meant
trouble, and that struggle for suprem-
Scy between the Anarchists and the po-
lice was to take place. The night al
first pleasant, darkened along toward
nine o'clock An express wagon was
placed near the alley north of Randolph
Street and near the Crane Manufacturing
COmpany's establishment, and was util-
lied as the speakers stand. Some two
thousand people stood in the street
about the wagon when August Spies
took his place upon it and began to talk.
His speech abounded in attacks on the
police for their acts at the McCormick
not, and was followed by a. speech by
A. r. Parsons, in which he advocated
organized efforts by the working people
against emnlovers